Monday, 19 October 2009

Reality-denying Amway apologists

ShyamI think that your readers have now probably witnessed enough of the gruesome pair of reality-denying 'Amway' apologists who regularly poison your Blog. Unless you know how exactly their minds work, communicating directly with fanatical cultists can be an exhausting and potentially damaging experience. It's difficult, but we must try to keep in mind that once they were free-thinking individuals and not the unquestioning agents of racketeers.Currently, the tactics pursued by Messrs. Steadson and Johnson are classic of deluded core-cult adherents. If they can't blind you with their group's exclusive jargon, and/or mystifying pseudo-science, they will try to drag you down into their two-dimensional 'us versus them' bunker, and/or provoke you into losing your temper. At all times, Steadson and Johnson are trying to shut down the critical and evaluative faculties of all free-thinking individuals challenging the authenticy of the fictional scenario that controls their group.For fanatical cultists, whose self-esteem and related-psychological function have become dependent on a paranoid group-delusion of absolute moral and intellectual supremacy, facing up to reality often involves them experiencing a severe break-down. Core-cult adherents who manage to leave their group and confront the ego-destoying reality that they've been systematically deceived and exploited, are invariably destitute and dissociated from all their previous social contacts. For many years afterwards, recovering former core-adherents can suffer from psychological problems which are also indicative of the victims of abuse.Steadson and Johnson have yet to arrive at this advanced point in their parallel cultic voyages.David Brear